racism

Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire, Olympics Watch, Politics - Saturday, July 14, 2012 19:43 - 1 Comment

Blog | Why is the UK’s leading Black newspaper denied access to the Olympic Stadium?

Travellers were greeted with a waxwork figure of Usain Bolt as they arrived at Heathrow's Terminal 5 yesterday. The figure is due to take it's place in Madame Tussauds but fans were given the chance to pose with the sporting hero as the airport welcomes record numbers of passengers arriving for the Olympics.

Today the UK’s leading black newspaper, The Voice, announced that they have been denied access to the Olympic Stadium for the London 2012 Games. While happy to exploit the sporting achievements of black athletes, the British Olympic Association are now literally unwilling to give black people a voice, argues Samantha Asumadu.

Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, July 12, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments

Blog | A new approach to police-community relations?

In an environment of strained community-police relations, Nnamdi Kalu reports on the tensions of engagement, and how technology can strengthen police accountability to the public.

Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, June 13, 2012 0:00 - 19 Comments

Comment | Black Gangs, White Lads: on (mis)understanding gang culture

Gang culture is a phenomenon that dominates headlines and election campaigns, yet whose historical and political context is almost always absent or ignored. To address the issue, Dom Anderson argues, we must begin by understanding the critical role social structures and institutions play.

Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, June 9, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments

Interview | John Carlos: “Occupy the World”

John Carlos, world-famous for his defiant, iconic black power salute at the Olympic games of '68, talks exclusively to Ceasefire's Samayya Afzal on human rights, racism and global change.

New in Ceasefire, Notes from the Margins - Wednesday, June 6, 2012 0:00 - 3 Comments

Notes from the margins | A new kind of barbarism: the ‘non-people’ of Patras

Protest in Athens against Greece’s decision to build a fence along a section of its border with Turkey April 2011 (Photo AP Photo)

In his latest column, Matt Carr looks at the brutal persecution of undocumented migrants in the Greek port-city of Patras, a continuum of violence that spans militarised law enforcement, the policing of protest, immigration control and the battlefields of the "war on terror"'.

Ceasefire Bites, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, June 5, 2012 15:43 - 3 Comments

Blog | An Oddly British Jubilee Weekend

A weekend away in a quiet coastal town over the Jubilee Weekend, Adam Elliott-Cooper writes, can tell some interesting stories about the legacies of Empire

Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, May 30, 2012 15:34 - 10 Comments

Analysis | What Israel’s anti-African pogroms tell us about Zionism

The mob setting garbage on fire and singing "The people wants the Africans to be burned" after a protest against African refugees and asylum seekers in Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood on May 23, 2012. (Photo: Activestills)

A week ago, Tel Aviv's African migrant community came under a sustained mob attack, including vandalism, looting and firebombing. Robert Kazandjian, Ali Hocine Dimerdji and Samantha Asumadu argue that these events, and their aftermath, provide further evidence of the inherently racist nature of political Zionism.

New in Ceasefire, The Anti-Imperialist - Sunday, April 15, 2012 10:05 - 0 Comments

The Anti-Imperialist | To self-police police racism is to perpetuate it

As further evidence emerges of police racism in the UK, Adam Elliott-Cooper uncovers a pattern of consistent failings by the Independent Police Complaint Commission to meaningfully hold the police to account.

New in Ceasefire, The Anti-Imperialist - Friday, January 6, 2012 11:51 - 10 Comments

The Anti Imperialist | Blaming the victim: what the Diane Abbott controversy tells us about institutional racism

Diane Abbott’s controversial words might have been clumsy but the reaction to them has been a lot more instructive than the tweets themselves. Attacks equating her comments with white racism are yet further indication, says Adam Elliott-Cooper, of how little we understand racism, and the power structures entwined with it.

Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, September 25, 2011 14:00 - 5 Comments

Books | Paint them black: the riots and mass incarceration

Ceasefire's Jonathan Jacobs reviews Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow', a best-selling landmark study of the de-facto racism of the US penal system, and points to striking parallels with the UK's response to the recent riots.

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